Medicine: A Better Operation

John Doe had a hernia 15 years agoand he still talks about his operation.
It was certainly something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in
the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether,
the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a
constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt
something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and
for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on...